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***Special Order Only*** Please Allow Two Weeks For Pickup/Delivery
The 2018 edition of the Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC©)
represents the most current approaches in the plumbing field. It is the sixth
edition developed under the ANSI Consensus process is designated as an American
National Standards by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
Contributions to the content of this code were made by every segment of the
built industry, including such diverse interests as consumers, enforcing authorities,
installers/maintainers, labor, manufacturers, research/standards/ testing
laboratories, special experts and users.
The UPC is designed to provide consumers with safe and sanitary plumbing
systems while, at the same time, allowing latitude for innovation and new
technologies. Key changes to the 2018 UPC include:
- New
sound transmission provisions for plumbing piping systems (Chapter 3)
- New
product standards for plumbing fixtures such as wall hung fixtures, waste
fittings, lavatories, showers, bathtubs and whirlpool bathtubs,
flushometer valves, sinks and eyewash stations; and signage for single use
toilet facilities (Chapter 4)
- New
provisions for connector capacities for elbows in connectors, minimum
capacity for storage water heaters and clearance to combustible materials
(Chapter 5)
- New
backflow protection provisions for chemical dispensers, new material
provisions for pipes, tubes, fittings and joint methods for water supply
and distribution, and new pressure testing for the hot and cold-water supply
system (Chapter 6)
- New
materials requirements for drain, waste, vent pipe and fittings (Chapter
7)
- New
provisions for trap seal primers for potable water supply (Chapter 10)
- New
provisions for engineered storm drainage systems (Chapter 11)
- New
requirements for piping material, overpressure protection and gas piping
installation for fuel gas piping systems (Chapter 12)
- New
requirements for medical gas and vacuum systems based on latest edition of
NFPA 99 (Chapter 13)
- New
peak water demand method and calculator for estimating demand loads for
water supply of single- and multi-family dwellings with water conserving
plumbing fixtures, fixture fittings, and appliances (Appendix M)
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